Sorry that kbin.earth has been down today. Apparently, several people had issues yesterday, but I hadn’t realized the full extent due to Matrix severely delaying my notifications.

The server unfortunately crashed while I was unavailable for the day, so I wasn’t aware of the issue and couldn’t fix it till I got back.

As an aside and general note for everyone, I don’t intend on ever shutting down kbin.earth without notice. I also don’t intend on completely disappearing either; I don’t want people needing to wonder if something happened to me. If I plan to shut down kbin.earth (which I don’t btw), I will give as much warning in advance as I can. (I’m not going to be a repeat of kbin.run)

Today only occurred due to an unfortunate combination of technology issues (my failure to receive Matrix notifications and the server crashing) and unavailability.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    12·
    3 months ago

    Dear god I almost went outside too!

    Nah more seriously, thanks for keeping the instance running. It’s remarkably reliable considering it’s (so far as I know) just you

    • jwr1@kbin.earthOPM
      6·
      3 months ago

      Dear god I almost went outside too!

      Lol :)

      Nah more seriously, thanks for keeping the instance running. It’s remarkably reliable considering it’s (so far as I know) just you

      Thank you for the kind words! Yeah it is just me on the server side. We do at least have several admins now for moderation though.

    • jwr1@kbin.earthOPM
      2·
      3 months ago

      I appreciate it, but I was literally just busy for the day, no need to worry about me.

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      1·
      3 months ago

      On that note. You could also try to setup Monit. Which will also monitor your services, but will try to automatically repair your services in case of down time.